Public transit ridership continues to increase. Whether this is a permanent shift in Americans’ driving habits or just a temporary downturn until the economy turns around, one thing is clear. This is the time to grab the opportunity and invest, build and modernize our public transit system.
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CNN test drives the Mini E electric car, but many viewers may get the wrong message from it. Personally I think it’s accurate in showing public confusion and lack of knowledge about electric and hybrid cars.
The Insight, set to go on sale March 24, 2009, is designed to combine functionality with style. Honda is not known for producing stylish cars, but the new Honda Insight looks pretty sharp. In any case, nothing beats Honda’s bucket seats in its price range, IMHO.
Car dealers are getting creative in hope to move products out of showrooms and into car buyer’s hands. How about buying a truck and get a smaller car for a dollar?
This recharging system claims to have solved a major problem of consumer adoption of EVs by allowing trips beyond typical current EV range of about 150 miles. With fast charging, drivers merely have to pull in to recharging stations much like refueling your internal combustion-engined cars, charge up the batteries, pay for the charge, and continue on their trips.
Enough of the talk of small cars claiming they get the best gas mileage around. Edmunds took the Prius, Jetta, Focus and smart cars to a fuel economy battle, but along the way they missed out on drawing any clear conclusion from the test.
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In the current state of development of the low/no emission and high miles-per-gallon (mpg) automobile industry, however, more technology and choices can cause adverse effects and reaction. Too many, and changing, choices together with new, unfamiliar technologies can create confusion.
Mitsubishi to showcase the Prototype i MiEV show car at Geneva 2009 to gauge public reaction to its continuing effort on the electric vehicle development front. MiEV stands for Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle, and it looks like Mitsubishi is on its way to bring out to market one of the first electric vehicles.
A couple of novice hypermilers drove the Toyota iQ for 504.2 miles, achieving 70-72mpg compared to official 65.7mpg.
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Car manufacturers are soon to bring to market electric and plug-in cars, and GM is doing the right thing for the Chevrolet Volt by working with stakeholders to build the right support infrastructure for the new electric car.
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